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Good business options for devotees.

Other · asked by user [] · 2008-03-06 · 4 answers
Are there any business options that require minimum contact with the outside world and at the same time generate a decent profit to support preaching and household activities ? I wouldnt want any business to take all my 24 hours just to generate a large profit. I want to concentrate on my seva and sadhana, and also be financially strong to be able to smoothly run a preaching center and family.

Please suggest some good options.
user [2] · 2008-03-07
First I will tell you the ones not to lose time with, the MLMs :)
I can only suggest one that I myself am starting, does not require "contact with the outside world" but as any business does require planning, hard work and a little investment.
http://www.sitesell.com
Traffic building results:
http://buildit.sitesell.com/sbi-businesses/traffic-alexa.html
user [252] · 2008-03-07
[quote]First I will tell you the ones not to lose time with, the MLMs :)[/quote]

Can you list the complete disadvantages of such a system ? Have you ever had a bad experience with MLM ? Please let everyone know.
user [2] · 2008-03-08
I guess this is not a spiritual conversation, but it might help devotees save some precious unrecoverable human life time, :)

First for the hard facts and nice explanation:

http://www.mlm-thetruth.com/30typicalMLMmisrepresentations.htm
http://www.mlm-thetruth.com/FAQreMLM.htm

Yes, I had experiences, my first one in year 2000 with Skybiz.com. Now you google skybiz and you find court cases and of course skybiz.com is not existing anymore.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/06/sky.shtm

I wont bore you with my tales, but in a nutshell, you only can get some money for some time, if you are lucky enough to get a guy in your downline that works so extremely well.
Of course in the meantime, you are the one working like an ass to get very meager profit on the plea of a "downline" that will make you rich.

In the 99.9 of the cases, that doesnt happen, even if you have some success, the chain will break at some point and you will be left with.... nothing, well less than nothing because you have invested so much tme and energy in the process.

The ones making the big money, and for some limited time too, until it falls apart., are the originators of the business. They put themselves as example, but read above and you will understand wherefrom their money is coming from.

Hope this helps.
user [166] · 2008-03-08
I used to work online as technical support for a very busy website...there are options available to work for a company totally online with minimum contact (aside from some initial training)...at least you are guaranteed a steady cash inflow.

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